Daedalus and Icarus Summary Daedalus and Icarus Summary How It (Supposedly) Went Down The Short Story Daedalus is a brilliant inventor—the Thomas Edison of his day. Unfortunately, he angers King Minos, the ruler of the island Crete, and he has to hightail it out of there. Desperate to flee the island, Daedalus uses wax to build some wings for himself and his son Icarus. Daddy Daedalus warns his son to fly at a middle height: the seawater will dampen the wings and the sun will melt them. (Not good either way.) Icarus heeds his father's advice for a bit, but then he gets cocky. He's having so much fun flying that he forgets the warning and flies too close to the sun. Sure enough, his wings melt, and Icarus plummets into the sea and drowns. Daedalus is (of course) devastated by his son's death, but the show must go on. He flies on to Sicily, where he mourns Icarus and builds a temple in honor of the god Apollo.

The Less Short Story Daedalus is an Athenian craftsman, famous for his ability to invent and build things. Think Leonardo da Vinci, but with more powers. Unfortunately, he also has a jealous streak. When his nephew (Talus) invents the saw, Daedalus realizes that the boy might be more talented than he is. Not good. In a fit of jealousy, Daedalus throws Talos off the Acropolis, a tall monument in Athens. That'll teach him not to invent any more carpentry tools. Some people say that Athena saw the boy falling, and transformed him into a partridge. But others argue that Talos died and that Daedalus tried to hide the murder by burying him. Well those are very different endings. Either because he was feeling guilty or because he was banished, Daedalus leaves Athens and heads to the island of Crete. While he's hanging out there, Daedalus befriends King Minos, the island's ruler. (It pays to have friends in high places.) Daedalus still has the touch in Crete and he continues his building streak.

First, he builds a cow suit so that Crete's queen (Pasiphae) can get it on with a bull. Yes, we said bull. Pasiphae's union with the bull results in a horrible half-man, half-beast called the Minotaur. Heard of him? Next up, King Minos (the half-beast's step-dad) asks Daedalus to design a maze (the Labyrinth) in which to put the terrible Minotaur. The Minotaur demands human sacrifices, and every nine years, King Minos sends seven young men and women into the Labyrinth to meet their doom. One of these victims sent to his death is the hero Theseus. This guy is tough and he decides to fight back and try to kill the Minotaur. King Minos' daughter, Ariadne, falls madly in love with Theseus. And since Daedalus built the Labyrinth, she asks him to help Theseus safely navigate it. Always the helpful one, Daedalus gives Theseus a ball of yarn, and tells the hero to trail it behind him, creating a roadmap for how to get back out. Genius, we say!

And sure enough, after Theseus kills the Minotaur, he is able to escape. (He and Ariadne leave Crete together.) King Minos is not happy with Daedalus for helping Theseus, so he locks Daedalus and his son, Icarus, in the Labyrinth. (This seems to be his punishment of choice.) (Some versions of the story say that King Minos actually imprisoned them in a tower. Still others say that Minos just ordered every ship surrounding the island to be searched, making it impossible for Daedalus and Icarus to escape. Any way you look at it, Daedalus and Icarus are trapped on Crete.) Clearly our genius inventor won't take this sitting down. Knowing that the land and water are guarded by King Minos' army, Daedalus decides to escape by air. Brilliant. Daedalus uses twine, feathers, and wax to build large wings for himself and his son. (According to Ovid, Icarus goofed around while Daddy Daedalus was making the wings. He played with the feathers and wax and just generally got in his dad's way. Ah, kids.) Finally, the wings are finished.

Daedalus tries his set on and—OMG—they totally work. He hangs in the air for a few seconds, flapping his fake wings. Nice! Before putting wings on Icarus, Daedalus gives his son some warnings: he should follow him closely and fly at a middle height. If he flies too low, the seawater will dampen the wings, and if he flies too high, the sun will melt them. Got it? Good. Daedalus is still a little scared about the journey: the big softy cries while tying the wings onto his son, and gives his little guy a hug. And off they go! Daedalus looks back at his son, cheering him on. A bunch of people on the ground, including a shepherd and a plowman, stop their work to gaze up at Daedalus and Icarus. They're completely blown away at the sight of two people flying in the air—they figure that Daedalus and Icarus might be gods, since no human has ever achieved flight before. What's up now, humans? In all the excitement, Icarus forgets his father's warning and starts to fly higher.

Sure enough, he gets too close to the sun: the heat softens the wax, and his wings fall apart. Icarus plummets into the sea, crying "Father, father!" on his way down. (We'll wait while you break out the tissues.) Daedalus tries to save his son, but it's too late—he has drowned. The only thing Daedalus can find are feathers floating in the water. For the first time ever, Daedalus curses his "art" (i.e., his crafting skills). That's what got him into this mess to begin with. Daedalus names the part of the ocean where Icarus fell the "Icarian Sea." A nice honor for a not-so-well-behaved boy. Still mourning, Daedalus flies onward to the Italian island of Sicily. When he gets there, he performs funeral rites for his son (these were super important back then). Oh, and according to Ovid, a partridge watches Daedalus as he does all this. This is no ordinary partridge, but Talos, the nephew that Daedalus once tried to murder.

Next, Daedalus constructs a temple to Apollo (NBD), where he hangs his wings. While living in Sicily, Daedalus strikes up a friendship with King Cocalus, the ruler of the island. When King Minos comes searching for Daedalus, Cocalus takes pity and hides the inventor. Oh, and even better, King Cocalus' daughters kill King Minos with scalding water, freeing Daedalus from his hunt forever. Daedalus Daedalus by Martha Thompson The Athenian Daedalus, son of Metion and the grandson of Erechtheus 1, was a famous architect, inventor, and craftsman. Among his inventions and creations were the wooden cow he constructed for the queen Pasiphae , the Labyrinth at Knossos, artificial wings for himself and his son Icarus , and he was even said to have invented images. His homeland was Athens. For a short time, his apprentice was his sister's son Perdix . When Daedalus feared that the boy would surpass him in talent, he murdered the boy by tossing him from the Acropolis of Athens. He was then tried at the Areopagus and banished from the city.

He fled to Crete, where he began to work at the court of King Minos and Queen Pasiphae , in the magnificent palace of Knossos. There he constructed a wooden cow for the queen to hide in to satisfy her amorous longings for a white bull sent by Poseidon , and by which she became pregnant with the Minotaur . When the Minotaur was born, Daedalus built the Labyrinth to contain the monstrous half-man, half-bull. For years Minos demanded a tribute of youths from Athens to feed the creature. Eventually, the hero Theseus came to Crete to attempt to slay the Minotaur. Ariadne , daughter of Minos and Pasiphae, fell in love with Theseus and asked Daedalus to help him. Daedalus gave her a flaxen thread for Theseus to tie to the door of the Labyrinth as he entered, and by which he could find his way out after killing the monster. Theseus succeeded, and escaped Crete with Ariadne. Minos, enraged at the loss of his daughter, shut Daedalus and his son Icarus into the Labyrinth.

To escape, Daedalus built wings for himself and Icarus. They successfully flew from Crete, but Icarus' wings melted when he flew too close to the sun, and he drowned in the sea. Daedalus buried his son and continued to Sicily, where he came to stay at the court of Cocalus . Minos then went in pursuit of Daedalus, hoping to trick the great inventor into revealing himself. At each city he visited, Minos offered a reward to whomever could thread a spiral seashell. Eventually, Minos came to Camicus in Sicily and presented the contest at Cocalus' court. Cocalus knew of Daedalus' talents, and gave the shell to him. The clever Daedalus tied the string to an ant, place the ant at one end of the shell, and allowed the ant to walk through the spiral chambers until it came out the other end. When Minos saw that someone had solved the puzzle, he demanded that Cocalus surrender Daedalus. Cocalus promised to do so, but he persuaded Minos to take a bath and stay for some entertainment. Minos agreed, and was murdered by Cocalus' daughters. 1.

The Athenians thought that a figure of such manifest intelligence and ingenuity had to be Athenian, and so they contrived a geneology whereby Daedalus was the son of Metion, son the Erechtheus, the legendary founder of Athens. Daedalus served as something like a patron saint of sculptors. Article details: Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology: Daedalus Daedalus (DEED-uh-lus or DED-uh-lus) Builder of the Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete. Daedalus was a renowned craftsman and inventor. Before his time statues had their arms fixed stiffly to their sides - Daedalus gave them naturalistic poses and, some say, the power of movement. Daedalus claimed to have invented the saw, but credit instead went to his nephew, whom Daedalus consequently murdered in a fit of professional jealousy. Because of this homicide, he fled his native Athens for the court of King Minos on the island of Crete. King Minos was a notorious ingrate. One day when his son Glaucus turned up missing, he sought the aid of the seer Polyeidus, hoping to draw on the latter's powers of prophesy and inner vision.

Polyeidus was the same seer who had advised Bellerophon on how to tame the flying horse Pegasus. True to his reputation, he soon found the boy, smothered headfirst in a huge jar of honey. In thanks for this service, Minos locked Polyeidus in a room with the dead boy, telling him that he'd be released when he had returned Glaucus to life. Polyeidus, a visionary not a magician, hadn't an inkling what to do, until a snake crawled into the room and died. Its mate slithered away and returned moments later with an herb, which it rubbed on the body. The first snake was brought back to life. Polyeidus applied the same herb to Glaucus and it did the trick. Reasonably expecting thanks and a reward, he was stunned to be told by Minos that he couldn't even go home again until he had taught Glaucus all his mystical powers. Resignedly, this he did. And in the end, with his freedom in sight, he bid King Minos farewell. "One last thing," he said to young Glaucus.

"Spit into my mouth." With what distaste may be imagined, Glaucus did as instructed - and instantly forgot everything he had been taught. King Minos behaved with similar ingratitude to Daedalus. In return for numerous services, notably the building of the Labyrinth, Minos had Daedalus imprisoned, either in his workroom or the Labyrinth itself. Admittedly, Daedalus had been compelled to design the Labyrinth in the first place owing to an indiscretion on his part. Minos's queen, Pasiphae, had fallen in love with a bull - through no fault of her own but in consequence of divine vengeance on Minos for - you guessed it - ingratitude to the gods. To help the queen, Daedalus fashioned a lifelike hollow cow inside which Pasiphae could approach the bull. As a result she gave birth to the Minotaur, half-man, half-bull. The Labyrinth was invented by Daedalus in order to confine the Minotaur and, some say, Pasiphae and her accomplice. But there was no cooping up a genius like Daedalus.

Having been locked up in his own architectural masterpiece, the great inventor knew better than to attempt the portal. Naturally Minos had placed this under heavy guard, knowing that if anyone could negotiate the twisting passages to the exit it was the creator of the Labyrinth himself. So Daedalus gave thought to other means of escape. Minos had been kind enough to provide him with a room with a view, looking out over the Cretan landscape many stories below. The king was quite confident that his prisoner would not be leaping to his freedom. What he had overlooked was the probability that the caged bird might fly. Indeed, Daedalus might well have been inspired by the soaring flight of the birds outside his window. It is certain that there were in fact birds in the vicinity because Daedalus managed to possess himself of a goodly supply of feathers. Like the great Leonardo da Vinci many centuries yet in the future, he sketched out on his drafting table a winglike framework to which these feathers might be applied. Building a wooden lattice in the shape of an outsized wing and covering it with the feathers, he set to testing his prototype.

It must have created quite a stir in the dank passages of the Labyrinth when Daedalus began waving this monumental feather duster around. The trials were important, though, for the ultimate invention would be freighted with the risk not just of his own life but that of his son Icarus as well. For Minos had wickedly imprisoned the guiltless boy together with his father. At last the day was at hand to take to the skies. As he attached one pair of wings to Icarus and another to himself, Daedalus cautioned his son repeatedly. "Remember all the trouble I had getting these feathers to stick?" he said for the sixth or seventh time. "The binding agent I resorted to is unstable," he pointed out as Icarus fidgeted impatiently. "I had to heat it to make it work. If it gets heated again - by the sun, say - it'll give way and the feathers will come loose. Do you understand, boy?" To judge by Icarus's expression, he felt his father was belaboring the point. As it turned out, he might have given his old dad more credit for a caution worth repeating.

For as soon as they had leapt from the windowsill and caught an updraft which bore them high into the sky about Mount Juktas, Icarus became giddy with exhilaration. Now he knew what a falcon felt like, dipping and soaring at will. Perhaps with some notion of going down in the annals of aviation with the first high-altitude record, he started flapping with a vengeance. And as he climbed into the thinner air aloft, the sun's proximity began to work as Daedalus had anticipated. The feathers came loose, and Icarus plunged headlong into the sea, which - scant consolation - henceforth bore his name. Daedalus - Greek Mythology Link About • Copyright © 1997 Carlos Parada and Maicar Förlag. Daedalus 4649: Daedalus and Icarus. Painting by Charles-Paul Landon, 1760-1826. Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Alençon. Daedalus was an Athenian architect, and the first inventor of images.

Charged with murder Daedalus, who received his craftsmanship from Athena , belonged to the royal Athenian clan called the Metionids, and among his ancestors are Erichthonius 2, who was king of Athens and was said to be the son of Athena and Hephaestus , and also King Erechtheus. Daedalus was condemned in the Areopagus for murder, and he fled to Crete , being followed in his exile by one of his pupils, Endoeus. This Endoeus is known for having made a statue of Athena seated that could be seen in Athens where other constructions by Daedalus, for example a folding chair, were also shown. It could be seen in Corinth a wooden statue of Heracles 1 made by Daedalus, which showed that his works were always distinguished by a special kind of inspiration. Daedalus was held responsible for the murder of one of his pupils, Talos 2, because, they say, he feared that Talos 2, with his talents, might surpass him.

Talos 2, also called Calos and Daedalus' nephew (son of his sister Perdix), received his education in the home of Daedalus, and was considered more gifted than his teacher. But others say that Daedalus envied the skills of Perdix (son of Eupalamus, son of Metion 1 or of Erechtheus), the inventor of the saw, and that he threw him down from a roof; they add that Perdix was then turned into a partridge by Athena . Perdix invented the saw from the spine of a fish, and he is said to have invented the compasses as well. Marvels done in exile Whatever happened in Athens , Daedalus came as an exile to Crete , where he made images and built several marvels for Minos 2 and and his family. He constructed a hollowed wooden cow on wheels for Pasiphae so that she could couple with a bull; as a result of this invention, Pasiphae gave later birth to the Minotaur .

He made the famous Labyrinth, where the Minotaur lived, being fed by the seven youths and as many damsels whom the Athenians sent to Crete as annual tribute (see Minotaur and Theseus ). This Labyrinth which Daedalus constructed was a chamber whose passageways were so winding that those unfamiliar with them had difficulty in making their way out. In this Labyrinth, the Minotaur was maintained and here it devoured the youths who were sent from Athens . He also designed a dancing floor for Ariadne in the town of Cnossus. Daedalus imprisoned When Theseus came to Crete , he was forced to confront the Minotaur in the Labyrinth. In order to help him to find his way out after killing the monster, Ariadne , who had fallen in love with Theseus , consulted Daedalus, who revealed to her the secrets of the Labyrinth. Minos 2 , having learned about the architect's treason, imprisoned both him and his son in the Labyrinth. But Daedalus constructed wings to escape. Labyrinth, after ancient Cretan coin from 330 BC. Painting by C. Parada.

Icarus 1 When they were about to take off, Daedalus told his son neither to fly high, lest the glue should melt in the sun and the wings should drop off, nor to fly near the sea, lest the pinions should be detached by the damp. But Icarus 1, disregarding his father's instructions, soared ever higher, till, the glue melting, he fell into the sea and perished. The Icarian Sea (near Samos), where he fell, was named after him, and it is said that Heracles 1 , who passed by, gave him burial. Others affirm that they traveled by sea, and that Icarus 1 drowned when his vessel was overturned; or that he, having disembarked in a reckless manner, fell into the sea and perished. It is told that on this occasion Daedalus devised sails for the shipsan invention as yet unknownso as to take advantage of the wind, and thus outsail the oared fleet of Minos 2 . Daedalus himself escaped, as all reports say, but his son's ship is said to have overturned, Icarus 1 being an unexperienced steersman.

Icarus 1 drowned and his body was carried ashore by the current to the islandthen without a namethat lies off Samos (the Aegean island off the western coast of Asia Minor); and Heracles 1 , coming across the body, recognized it, and buried it. Since then, both the island and the sea around it are named after Icarus 1. New exile Daedalus then came to the city of Inycus in Sicily, where King Cocalus protected him, concealing him in his palace. Some time after, Minos 2 came to Sicily searching for him, and was likewise received by King Cocalus, who feigned hospitality: Minos 2 was betrayed and murdered, either by the king himself or by the king's daughters, who were great admirers of Daedalus' skills. Famous also in Italy The residence of Daedalus at Cnossus gave the Cretans a reputation for the making of wooden images that lasted for a long period. After Daedalus' second exile in Sicily, his renown spread over the island and many regions of Italy.

Yet it is also told that Theseus , after slaying the Minotaur , brought Daedalus back to Athens . Family Daedalus | Mythology Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit Minos made Daedalus build the Labyrinth to imprison the Minotaur , the offspring of the Cretan Bull and his wife, Pasiphae (Pasiphae commissioned Daedalus to build a wooden cow so that she may mate with the bull). Thus the Minotaur was a half-man and half-bull Daedalus as he appears in The Storyteller . Minos imprisoned the Minotaur and forced Aegeus , Metion 's successor in Athens, to send tributes of 14 men and women for the Minotaur to fed on. The Athenian prince and hero Theseus volunteered to go, hoping to kill the Minotaur. Ariadne , Minos' daughter fell in love with, and wanted to help Theseus. Daedalus and his nephew were imprisoned by Minos so that the secret of the Labyrinth would not be made public. Daedalus decided they could escape if he constructed wings. He made wings from feathers and wax.

Before they escaped Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly to high for the sun will melt his wings and not to low for he will fall into the ocean. Icarus, enchanted by the sensation of flying, flew too high. The wax on his wings melted off and he fell into the water. Daedalus mourned his son and escaped to Sicily. Videos Icarus | Mythology Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit Daedalus, Icarus's father, who was a remarkable Athenian craftsman who was exiled in the palace of Knossos by King Minos . He was exiled because of his involvement in helping Theseus , who survived the Labyrinth and defeated the Minotaur . He had given Minos's daughter, Ariadne , a ball of string (clew), which she used to help Theseus, Minos's enemy. Along with himself, Icarus was also imprisoned. Daedalus fashioned a pair of wings for his son and him, which they attempted to use to escape. Icarus was warned not to fly too close to the Sun, nor too close to the water. However, Icarus ignored his father's words and flew too close to the Sun.

The wax on his wings melted from the Sun's heat and it caused Icarus to fall and die. The sea in which he fell in became known as the Icarian Sea. Hellenistic writers give the tale variants, which has Icarus escape from Crete via boat provided by Pasiphaë . Daedalus had constructed the first sails for the boat. Icarus when en route to Sicily fell into the water and Icarus in The Storyteller drowned. Heracles erected a tomb for him. Family Daedalus, the great inventor Daedalus Daedalus the greatest inventor of Ancient Greece Daedalus, a great invetor, with a tragic fate Daedalus (or Daidalos in Greek, Δαίδαλος) was the greatest inventor of Ancient Greece, a man of many skills and arts, as indicated by his name, which comes from the Ancient Greek verb “daedalo”, meaning “to work cunningly”.

The Labyrinth in Minoan Crete, Ariadne’s Clue, Pasiphae’s Wooden Cow, Ariadne’s Dancing-Floor, the prow of contemporary ships and flying with wings of wax and feathers were all, according to mythology, Daedalus’ inventions. Daedalus’ lineage There are several legends concerning Daedalus, written down for the first time by Athenian mythographers of the 6th c. BC, under Peisistratus. Most of the myths on Daedalus’s life are set on Crete, so the myths concerning Daedalus must be Cretan in origin. The legend of Daedalus tells us that he was born in Athens and was the descendant of Erectheus, the legendary hero and King of Athens, the founder of the Panathenian Games. Daedalus’ mother Alcippe (or Phrasmide or Iphinoe) was also of noble lineage, being descended from Cecrops, the mythical founder of the city of Athens. According to a different version, Daedalus was descended from the god Hephaestus and inherited his ability to make almost anything.

Daedalus the architect and sculptor Daedalus soon became the greatest architect and sculptor of Athens. It was even said that the statues which came from his workshop looked alive - so alive that when Hercules saw the statue of a man in fighting stance, he though he was being attacked and instinctively smashed it with his club. When he realised he had destroyed an elaborate statue, which was actually of himself, he was extremely embarrassed and apologised to Daedalus. Daedalus was the first to give the limbs free movement, freeing the arms from the body and setting the legs apart. He also made the face more expressive by adding the details of the eye (eyeball, pupil and iris). How Daedalus came to Crete Talos or Calos (not to be confused with the giant Talos , guardian of Crete) was the son of Daedalus' sister (Perdicas or Polycastes) and he was a apprentice in Daedalus' workshop. It seems that the family as a whole was talented, and Talos was growing into an exceptionally skilled craftsman. Rumour in Athens had it that the nephew would outstrip his uncle.

Daedalus, blinded by jealousy, threw Talos off the Acropolis. The crime was soon out and Daedalus was banished from the city. His sister killed herself for grief at losing her beloved son, and Daedalus eventually ended up in Crete. Daedalus was immediately made welcome in Crete, as his fame as a great artisan had gone before him. He became the confidant of Minos, the mythical King of Knossos. Minos put Daedalus in charge of all technical works in the Palace, and so legend has it that Daedalus was the inventor of almost every technological innovation of the time In Crete Daedalus met Naucratis, who worked in the service of Minos, and had a son by her: Icarus . Daedalus’ works on Crete Pasiphae’s Wooden Cow Ariadne’s Dancing-Floor Daedalus was the one who built the first “dancefloor” in history for the Princess Ariadne. It was admired even by the gods. The “daedalia” Another invention of Daedalus was supposedly the ship’s prow, which is why prows were also known as “daedalia” in Ancient Greece.

Pasiphae’s Wooden Cow Minos had asked his uncle Poseidon, the god of the sea, to send a sign in order to prove that he was greater than his brothers. Poseidon sent Minos a beautiful bull from the sea, which Minos was supposed to sacrifice in his honour. But Minos was reluctant to kill such a wonderful animal, and cunningly sacrificed a different bull in its place. Poseidon was furious and punished Minos for his impiety in an unusual way: he made Minos’ wife, Queen Pasiphae, fall in love with the bull. Mad with passion for the bull, Pasiphae asked Daedalus to find her a way to lie with it without endangering her life. So Daedalus made a hollow wooden cow, covered it with the hide of a real cow, and left it in a field with the queen inside. The bull was deceived and mounted the false cow, and from this unnatural union was born the Minotaur, a monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man.

Daedalus’ Labyrinth After the birth of the Minotaur, Daedalus was called upon to hide Minos’ guilt for this heavy punishment, by finding a way to imprison the Minotaur. Daedalus built the Labyrinth, a maze-like building of winding corridors and complicated twists and turns, which confused anyone who entered it so much that he could not find the way out. We have no idea where the Labyrinth was, although many people identify it with the Palace of Knossos itself. It is true that the Palace of Knossos consists of many rooms connected by narrow corridors. In any case, according to legend, Knossos itself was built by the architect Daedalus. Ariadne’s Clue Theseus killing Minotaur Every nine years, the Athenians sent seven youths and seven maidens to Crete, as a blood tax for the unjust murder of Androgeos, the son of Minos. The youths and maidens were cast into the Labyrinth to be devoured by the Minotaur. One year, one of the seven youths was Theseus, the son of the King of Athens.

Brave and handsome, he fell in love with Minos’ daughter Ariadne, who would on no account let her beloved become food for the Minotaur. Daedalus’ aid was requested once more, and he gave Ariadne a clue or ball of strong thread. Theseus, following Daedalus’ advice, tied one end of the string to the Labyrinth entrance, and walked through the maze unwinding it until he found the Minotaur. Once he had killed the monster, he followed the thread back out. Minos imprisons Daedalus Daedalus meant no harm when he helped Pasiphae and Ariadne, but he fell out with Minos as a result. Obviously the king hadn’t wanted his wife to mate with the bull or Theseus to find his way out of the Labyrinth. Furious, he imprisoned Daedalus and his son Icarus in the Labyrinth. Deadalus and Son | Red Dead Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Return these items to Charles Kinnear. Wait 1–2 days for Kinnear to complete his glider. Mission Details Talk to the stranger near Agave Viejo .

He is located in between Casa Madrugada and Agave Viejo, just South of Roca de Madera, on the cliff's edge. Tips and Tricks See the Beaver page for spawn locations. A good place to collect Red Sage is in Rio Bravo (just above Plainview ). There is also the Survivalist Map, which shows all herbs on your mini-map from longer distances for 20 minutes (40 if passed rank 5 of Survivalist Challenge). It is best to avoid the hollow overlooking Armadillo, however, since this area is frequented by a pair of fast-respawning Cougars and full of bushes and scrub that make them difficult to spot. The Stranger can die. One known possibility for this is the wolves that inhabit the land close to the stranger. Shooting at these wolves will cause him to panic and run off the cliff to his death. In this situation, it was reported that the Stranger respawned approximately seven in-game days later. Feathers can be found literally everywhere; large birds drop more than small ones, as a rule. A fast way to gain feathers is by clearing a gang hideout; a large number of Vultures will spawn when the hideout is clear.

Chickens also drop a lot of feathers. A good story mission to collect crow feathers is " Pestilence ". Duck feathers can easily be aquired through the Stranger mission " Remember my Family ". Various Random Encounter marksmen will challenge the player to shoot a certain number of birds within a time limit (mainly Hawks in New Austin , and Eagles in Great Plains ), an easy way of gathering feathers. Trivia Kinnear's ambitions are a little anachronistic; the Wright Brothers had achieved powered flight in 1903, and reports of early gliders stretch right back to the 9th century, with well-documented successful examples as early as 1849. It's possible that, like the Preacher , Kinnear was unaware of these accomplishments. In Greek mythology, Daedalus was a great inventor who built wings out of wax and feathers with which he intended to escape from the labyrinth in which the king Minos of Crete had imprisoned him, together with his son, Icarus. While they were flying, Daedalus noticed that Icarus flew too close to the sun. The wax melted and Icarus fell to his death in the sea.

Kinnear, however, appears unaware of this, as he exclaims to Marston "They doubted dear Icarus sir, yes they did!", although it might hint his ill-fated results. The fact that Daedalus's name is misspelled in the title of the mission as "Deadalus" provides a small amount of dark humor and hints at Kinnear's unfortunate fate at the end of the mission. If you start the mission as John and give Kinnear the supplies as Jack, Kinnear might make a remark while you walk up to him saying: "Is that you? Oh, the years have been very kind." Also if the mission is completed as Jack when you give Kinnear the supplies he will ask: "Did the kind man send you?" After completion, the crashed flying machine will remain at the base of the cliff for the entirety of the game. If you look carefully, you can see the crashed flying machine on your map, even before you start the mission. Immediately after completing the mission, the player can scope in with a sniper rifle or binoculars and see Charles' body.

It will normally have unspawned by the time the player reaches it if they go via the trail down to the bottom of the mesa, but with some luck it is possible to survive sliding down the cliff. Charles' body has only a Survivalist Map if looted. Bugs Upon completion of this mission, when Charles gives the player money, it can occasionally zero out the player's wallet. There has been at least one occurrence of Charles jumping off the cliff in the cutscene while the flying machine remains where it was before the player approached him. This is followed by Charles hilariously hanging in the air briefly, as if he were still using the flying machine. While delivering the materials, if your horse is attacked by wolves while you are talking to Charles, you will fail the mission. When you're about to watch him fly, he can be replaced by a big, white horse. If the player points a gun at him or kills him before starting the mission, he and his flying machine disappear entirely. If you have 20+ feathers from different birds, he will take 20 of each feather.

For example; if you start with 24 crow feathers, 26 hawk feathers and 22 songbird feathers, you will end up with 4 crow feathers, 6 hawk feathers and 2 songbird feathers. Occasionally, when you give the materials to Charles, there is a bug that occurs after the task updates in the journal and the game autosaves. Your materials will be deducted from your provisions, but a rattlesnake can spawn at the position that charles walks to at his glider. The snake can kill Charles, and fail the task for you. You then have to repeat the task of collecting materials for him, despite the journal having being updated, it reverts to its state before you delivered the materials. If the player chooses to skip the cutscene of Charles' flight, and after the auto-save is performed, a dialog will state that "The Stranger has disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Check back next time you are in the area." Despite this, the stranger side-mission will be complete. Sometimes, after Charles crashes down below, his body will bug and fly all over the area before dropping somewhere entirely random. This can be quite humorous.

It is possible to lasso him when he gets close but doing so will hurl you off the cliff and down below. This has only been seen on the Xbox 360 version of the game. Installing the game can fix this bug.

Question: Who was the son of Daedalus?
Answer: Icarus